US pending home sales are now lower than during peak pandemic shutdown, 20% unemployment, mass fear… And lower than 2008!

https://twitter.com/RaymieMark/status/1829162596492292106 What stage? https://t.co/nl1mq3RFPD — KKGB (@INArteCarloDoss) August 29, 2024 Pending Home Sales in the United States decreased 8.50 percent in July of 2024 over the same month in the previous year.https://t.co/NHmalX7Rux pic.twitter.com/WOKdO4kX1W — TRADING ECONOMICS (@tEconomics) August 29, 2024 …

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For the very first time since 2008, the New York Fed will not confirm or deny that JPMorgan Chase is the custodian of $2.4 Trillion of its securities = 2008 never ended

TL:DR: The Federal Reserve bought Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) after the 2008 financial crisis. JPMorgan Chase was chosen to hold these MBS securities. JPMorgan Chase has been charged with multiple criminal activities related to MBS. Despite these charges, the New York …

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Sound familiar to 2008?: “changes in the 90s enhanced asset securitization, shifting the prevalent mode of financial intermediation from a bank-centric model of taking deposits & issuing loans (holding them to maturity) to a new model where loans were packaged into securities & sold to investors.”

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/11/the-nonbank-shadow-of-banks/ TLDRS: Fed paper: The evolution of banks and nonbanks is closely linked, particularly since the 1990s. In the 1990s, financial ‘innovation’ and regulatory changes boosted asset securitization. This shifted financial intermediation from a traditional bank-centric model (taking …

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It is worse than 2008!

Convoy that was seen was the market disruptor for the massive trucking business 2 years ago, shutdown completely today mentioning a massive recession in supply chain. 2008 will be a walk in the park… https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/19/bezos-backed-freight-firm-convoy-shuts-down-read-ceo-memo-here.html Cass Freight Index, quarterly change: …

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JUST LIKE 2008: ‘There is a degree of nervousness out there but also, frankly speaking, a little too much confidence that all will be fine’

via FT: September 14 – Financial Times (Laura Noonan): “Private equity and private debt executives are too laid back about the mounting risks in their industry, the chair of the top organisation representing securities regulators warned…, as it published new research on …

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